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Inside Jackie Chan -Japon-.zip were 23 black-and-white manga-style panels. It wasn’t a game or a movie. It was a fan-made (self-published manga) from 1998, depicting Jackie Chan training with Son Goku from Dragon Ball in a Tokyo dojo.
Did you know Jackie voiced himself in the Japanese anime Project A-ko 2 ? A low-res rip of that cameo, bundled with a scanned magazine article from Weekly Bunshun , would absolutely end up in a ZIP file named like this. Before you go hunting for this file yourself, a quick note: Any ZIP file named after a celebrity + a foreign country is a classic phishing bait. While I’m treating this as a retro-archaeology thought experiment, always scan unknown archives with antivirus software before opening. The Final Verdict I finally cracked the password (it was jackie1980 – creative) and extracted the contents.
Today’s find: Jackie Chan -Japon-.zip
The “Japon” tag might actually be a mistranslation or mislabel. Perhaps it’s a collection of for a Cantonese film, or—more interestingly—a set of rare Jackie Chan anime cameos.